Bottle.



M. E. STERRETT.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 6. 1913.

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MANFORD E. STERR-ETT, OF BURROWS, INDIANA.

BOTTLE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

Application filed December 6, 1913. Serial No. 805,075.

To aZZ 10/tom it may concern Be it known that I, MANFORD E. STERRETT,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Burrows, in the county ofCarroll and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is .to provide a bottle for fluids and thelike and which must be partially mutilated in order to withdraw theoriginal contents so that the bottle cannot be conveniently refilledwith a spurious or inferior fluid and sold as the genuine article.

The invention contemplates, among other features, the provision of abottle adapted to contain a fluid or the like, with suitable air-tightsealing means, the said bottle having a frangible portion which must bebroken away to remove the air-tight sealing means, thus mutilating thebottle to an eX- tent which will prevent the fraudulent reusing of thebottle inasmuch as a customer will readily note, if the bottle has beenspuriously refilled, that the contents of the bottle is not original onaccount of the fact that the upper portion of the bottle must bemutilated in order to withdraw the original contents, and the fact thatthe same has been mutilated will be an indication that a bottle filledwith fluid contains one which is spurious and in all probabilityinferior to the original contents.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to theaccompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification,in'which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts inall the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view of the bottle, showingthe same sealed; Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the frangible portionof the bottle broken away; and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary verticalsectional view of a slightly modified form of bottle.

Referring more particularly to the views, I disclose a bottle body 10including an integral neck 11 having an annular and flared ange 12providing a flat ledge 13 at its upper portion and from which projectsup wardly a circular frangible neck 14 having a restricted opening 15,as shown.

A tapered stopper 16 is adapted for insertion in the neck 11 to beencircled by an enlarged flared flange 12 and which is preferablyenlarged in order to strengthen the bottle body at this point so thatthat portion of the neck encircling the stopper will not be broken awaywhen the frangible neck 14 is broken away, as will be hereinafter morefully disclosed. A wafer 17 is arranged to lie on the stopper 16 andlies in the horizontal plane of the point of formation of the frangibleneck 14, the interior of the frangible neck 14 being preferably filledwith a cementitious material 18. Now when it is desired to remove theoriginal contents of the bottle a blow is struck on the frangible neck14, thus shattering the same so that the cementitious material 18 can beremoved, after which the wafer 17 is removed and the stopper then takenfrom the neck 11 to permit of pouring out the contents of the bottlebody. The wafer 17 can be made of paraffin or formed of cardboard andcoated with stearin or the like in order that the cementitious material18 will not adhere to the upper face of the wafer when the frangibleneck 14 is broken away from the neck 11 and with which it is initiallyformed.

In Fig. 3 I disclose a modified form of my device and in which the neck11, at the point of formation of the frangible neck 14 and on the innerface thereof, is provided with a circular ledge 19 forming a seat 20 forthe wafer 17, the said ledge 19 preferably having an inclined wall withthe edge of the wafer 17 also inclined so that the wafer will securelyrepose upon the seat and protect the stopper 16.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that my bottle is ofa simple and durable construction, can be cheaply manufactured and mustbe mutilated in order to withdraw the original contents therefrom sothat when the bottle is subsequently filled with a spurious or inferiorfluid the consumer will readily note that this has been done inasmuch asthe bottle, when containing the original contents, will not be in anvway mutilated.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

In a bottle, the combination with a bottle body and an integral enlargedneck thereon, said neck having a flared inner wall with a flat ledgeformed on the top of the neck, of a circular frangible neck projectingupwardly from the ledge of the first mentioned flared neck, with theentrance to the frangible neck restricted to a less diameter than thediameter of the interior of the frangible neck and the diameter of theflared neck at its upper portion, a tapered stopper 5 for insertion inthe flared neck, With its up- 10 ledge, said Wafer being tapered, and acem- Gopies o f this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

entitious material arranged in the frangible neck to lie Wholly Withinthe frangible neck and cover the said Wafer.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

MANFORD E. STERRETT.

Witnesses:

G. E. HILTON, HARRY B. CUsTER.

Washington, D. G.

